Politics and Public Goods in Developing Countries: Evidence from the Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Blakeslee
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Goods

scholarly journals Demystification of GM crop costs: releasing late blight resistant potato varieties as public goods in developing countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Schiek ◽  
Guy Hareau ◽  
Yona Baguma ◽  
Akshat Medakker ◽  
David Douches ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Late Blight ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Gm Crop ◽  
Potato Varieties

8. The future of development

2018 ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Ian Goldin
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
International Community ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Global Public Goods ◽  
Global Commons ◽  
The Future

‘The future of development’ considers some of the key challenges facing all countries: the sequencing of different policy reforms and investment efforts; the role of private investment and foreign aid; the coherence of aid policies; the provision of global public goods; and the role of the international community in the protection and restoration of the global commons. As individuals get wealthier and escape poverty, the choices they make increasingly impact other people. More than ever the futures of advanced and developing countries are intertwined. The term ‘development’ is less and less about a geographic place and more and more about our collective ability to cooperate in harvesting global opportunities and managing the associated global risks.

Informal Local Taxation in Developing Countries

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Prud'homme
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Local Taxation ◽  
Order Of Magnitude

In this paper an attempt has been made to apply to the area of local taxation in developing countries the concept of ‘informality’ which has been so successfully utilized in other areas. Information taxation is defined as the mobilization of resources outside normal tax channels for the provision of public goods and services. A typology of informal taxes is offered that distinguishes between (1) ‘pinch’, (2) extortions, (3) requisitions, (4) contributions, (5) gifts, and (6) donations. In the case of Zaire, an order of magnitude of the importance of informal taxation is offered. A reassessment of the merit and demerits of informal taxation is then proposed.

scholarly journals Improving Cooperation among Farmers for Communal Land Conservation in Ethiopia: A Public Goods Experiment

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9290
Author(s):  
Shunji Oniki ◽  
Haftu Etsay ◽  
Melaku Berhe ◽  
Teklay Negash
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Land Conservation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
Communal Land ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
High Level

Farmers in developing countries depend on communal natural resources, yet countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are facing the severe degradation of communal lands due to the so-called “tragedy of the commons”. For the sustainable management of common resources, policy interventions, such as farmer seminars, are necessary to ensure high-level cooperation among farmers for land conservation. However, the effects of this type of information provision are not well known. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the dissemination of conservation information on collaborative communal forest management using an economic field experiment with 936 farmers selected by random sampling from 11 villages in the northern Ethiopian Highlands. We conducted a public goods game experiment using a framework of voluntary contribution to communal land conservation with an intervention to remind participants about the consequence of their behaviors. The results show that the volunteer contribution increased after the intervention, and thereafter the decay of the contribution was slow. The results indicate that providing information about the consequences leads to a higher contribution. The effects of information provision are heterogeneous in terms of social condition, such as access to an urban area and social capital, and individual characteristics, such as wealth. These findings imply that information provision effectively improves farmer collaboration toward natural resource conservation in developing countries.

scholarly journals The Other Side of Taxation: Extraction and Social Institutions in the Developing World

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Lust ◽  
Lise Rakner
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Resource Mobilization ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fiscal Sociology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
State Taxation

The fiscal sociology literature views the state at the heart of development, but in most developing countries, formal taxation is limited. Instead, local residents make substantial contributions outside the state to the provision of public goods. That is, they engage in what we call social extraction rather than state taxation. This article conceptualizes social extraction and the social institutions that drive extraction. Furthermore, it considers variations in the content of social institutions, and it proposes research agendas that allow us to understand how social institutions impact resource mobilization and development at the community level. It draws lessons from a large, cross-disciplinary literature that includes work in anthropology, sociology, economics, psychology, and political science.

Original Sin, Good Works, and Property Rights in Russia

2006 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Frye
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Transition Countries ◽  
Original Sin ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Good Works ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
State Relations

Are property rights obtained through dubious means forever tainted with original sin, or can right holders make their ill-gotten gains legitimate by doing good works? This is a critical question for developing and transition countries, where privatization is often opaque and businesspeople may receive property, but remain unwilling to use it productively due to concerns about the vulnerability of their rights to political challenge. Using a survey of 660 businesspeople conducted in Russia in 2005, the author finds that the original sin of an illegal privatization is difficult to expunge. Contrary to a “Coasian” view of privatization, property rights transferred through a legally questionable privatization are seen as illegitimate long after privatization. Busi-nesspeople, however, can improve the legitimacy of property rights by doing good works, such as providing public goods and using their assets well. Finally, managers who provide public goods for their region are more likely to invest in their firms than those who do not. This suggests a possible political rationale for the provision of public goods by privatefirms.Thesefindingshave implications for studies of privatization, property rights, and business-state relations in transitions and developing countries.

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